Quotes about Consequences

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay it, like a honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that's why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good cant. Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for being bad.

We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.